Avrum Rosensweig

I was born into a rabbinical home in Kitchener, ON. In my early years, I attended yeshiva and, later studied journalism at Ryerson. In 1990 I began my community work as a fundraiser with UJA. In 1994, after Rwanda, I decided to launch Canada's first Jewish humanitarian organization. Our mission was to encourage all Jews to play a role in tikun olam and to create programs to allow them to do so. Since then, Ve'ahavta has worked in three dozen countries around the world, including Israel, and worked closely with the homeless population here at home, through a nightly van program and a school for the homeless.